White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha said on Sunday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will decide in the next few weeks on whether children under the age of 5 can get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.
The comment comes after the FDA approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 boosters for emergency use in children ages 5 through 11. On May 19, a panel of vaccine advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted to recommend that children in this age group get a Pfizer booster dose.
